The ‘Something-for-nothing’ Brigade

Peter Lilley made a famous speech at the Conservative Party Conference in 1992 in which he detailed through song what would happen to benefit scroungers, or the people on his ‘little list’, who ‘never would be missed’.  He took courageous decisions to root out people who scrounged off the state and lived supported by taxpayers.

There is still a problem in this country with people drawing support from the state when not entitled to, once styled ‘paid up members of the something-for-nothing brigade’.  Conservatives believe in individual responsibility and so cannot allow these people to simply claim their benefits from the state.  Everyone has a duty to do a good days work, in return for which they should be allowed to spend the fruits of their labour.  They should also be able to expect that it will not be taken away to pay for those unwilling to work, something that currently people believe they are doing.